Table of Contents

1: Alan Bowman & Andrew Wilson: Introduction. Quantifying the Roman economy: integration, growth, decline?
I. Urbanization
2: Elio Lo Cascio: Urbanization as a proxy of demographic and economic growth
3: Roger Bagnall: Response to Elio Lo Cascio
II. Field survey and demography
4: Willem Jongman: Archaeology, demography, and Roman economic growth
5: Elizabeth Fentress: Peopling the countryside: Roman demography in the Albegna Valley and Jerba
6: David Mattingly: Peopling ancient landscapes: potential and problems
III. Agriculture
7: Alan Bowman: Quantifying Egyptian agriculture
8: Roger Bagnall: Response to Alan Bowman
IV. Trade
9: Andrew Wilson: Approaches to quantifying Roman trade
10: Michael Fulford: Approaches to quantifying Roman trade: response
11: William Harris: A comment on Andrew Wilson: 'Approaches to quantifying Roman trade'
V. Coinage
12: Bruce Hitchner: Coinage and metal supply
13: Matthew Ponting: Roman silver coinage: mints, metallurgy, and production
14: Chris Howgego: Some numismatic approaches to quantifying the Roman economy
VI. Prices, earnings and standards of living
15: Dominic Rathbone: Earnings and costs: living standards and the Roman economy
16: Bob Allen: How prosperous were the Romans?
17: Walter Scheidel: New ways of studying incomes in the Roman economy

About the Author

Alan Bowman is Camden Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford. Andrew Wilson is Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, Universiy of Oxford.

Reviews

well-edited and nicely-produced
*A. J. Parker, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology*

The character of the volume is both exploratory and searching ... commendable and extremely useful undertaking systematically to compile quantifiable evidence.
*Peter Fibiger Bang, Journal of Roman Studies*

this volume does truely offer a reasonably varied, balanced and up-to-date overview of the methods and problems in quantifying the Roman economy, thus effectively contributing to a central debate in Roman studies. Being the first of a series, it certainly places a heavy burden of high expectations on forthcoming volumes.
*Alessandro Launaro, University of Cambridge*